“After My Election I Have More Flexibility.”

Diplomacy and domestic politics don’t mix. On March 26, the day before nuclear security talks in Seoul, Korea, a hot mic picked up President Obama assuring Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that he would have more flexibility to deal with missile defense issues after his re-election. Romney, a frequent critic of Obama’s foreign policy, called the remark “alarming and troubling.”

If the voting populace decides to go Republican, expect higher taxes (less for the rich), more debt (historically true), more military adventurism, less infrastructure investment, and less social benefits. It's what they are saying, no secrets here. The supreme irony is that if the Right slashed and burned social programs like Medicare, the greatest beneficiaries (other than the wealthy elite who would end up with the lion share of the money), would be surprisingly Liberals since they tend to be young, educated, hard working, employed, non Red State.

Man, those guys are right about the government doing too much. Thank White Jesus that Mitt Romney isn't going to a blessed thing for anyone! If he had less contempt for the electorate, why, who KNOWS what kinda silly nonsense he might do? Feeding people and making sure only an acceptable level of cockroach parts make it into my can of Spam. 'Taint right.

You're seriously ranking Biden's comments as a "gaffe?" It's what enabled Obama to come out and say what he'd likely believed for years, which changed a bunch of minds and advanced the cause of equal rights. Seriously, we should all have such profound "gaffes."

Listening to the Romney tape is worse than reading about it. He's got the Fox/Tea Party/Luntz talking points down to a T. Does he practice in front of a mirror or has he spouted them so much they now just flow naturally? Previously he said those who don't pay Federal income tax will be happy to do so as then they'll be proud to be supporting our troops. (some of them are our troops). He's on Fox this afternoon repeating the same - they'll be happy to pay - all it will take is a President who'll sock it to em. And it's not class warfare - class warfare is when you want the Clinton taxes put back on the 1%.

He thinks he's going to burst out of it like David Blaine in November. Unfortunately for him, the Republican party has tendency to take its ball and go home, leaving him with the Ultimate Hide-and-Seek Championship title.